The Friday Five.
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princesskatsumi1. What is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen?
Tough question. The night sky far out to sea. Or in the desert. A million shimmering stars.
Feeling as if one with the universe and simultaneously realizing my insignificance.
2. What is your greatest dream in life?
At this moment, to wake up from the nightmare of rioting and coronavirus to a peaceful world.
3. What is the best book you have ever read?
Still slogging through The Tale of Genji. Considered to be the first modern novel. Written in the early 11th century by Lady Murasaki. I frequently have to pause to look something up. Kind of like preparing to see Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost with all of the contemporary references. So. The jury is still out.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club0 AKA The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. Some of the humorous descriptions Dickens uses to portray the tribulations of the Pickwicks or the stereotypical bumpkin Sam Weller who always gains the upper hand are too insightful. Too funny.
4. What is your most cherished childhood memory?
My friend, Spewgie, and I have been together since before birth. Our mothers had the same OB / GYN.
I remember our mothers dressing us in our seersucker sou'westers and rompers and playing in the sandbox together with our bucket of cars in the shade of the maple tree.
5. What is your best character trait or strength?
我慢. Gaman. "Enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity". From Zen Buddhism. Generally translated as "perseverance" but that is not quite accurate. Just like the word komorebi. "Sunlight that filters through the canopy of leaves of trees and onto the forest floor." The concept cannot be summed up in one convenient English word.
And no. Sitting through a Green Bay Packer game at Lambeau Field in January doesn't count. Gaman is more directed towards earthquakes and tsunamis.
Or the adversities of being the only freshman on varsity cheer.
Tough question. The night sky far out to sea. Or in the desert. A million shimmering stars.
Feeling as if one with the universe and simultaneously realizing my insignificance.
2. What is your greatest dream in life?
At this moment, to wake up from the nightmare of rioting and coronavirus to a peaceful world.
3. What is the best book you have ever read?
Still slogging through The Tale of Genji. Considered to be the first modern novel. Written in the early 11th century by Lady Murasaki. I frequently have to pause to look something up. Kind of like preparing to see Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost with all of the contemporary references. So. The jury is still out.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club0 AKA The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. Some of the humorous descriptions Dickens uses to portray the tribulations of the Pickwicks or the stereotypical bumpkin Sam Weller who always gains the upper hand are too insightful. Too funny.
4. What is your most cherished childhood memory?
My friend, Spewgie, and I have been together since before birth. Our mothers had the same OB / GYN.
I remember our mothers dressing us in our seersucker sou'westers and rompers and playing in the sandbox together with our bucket of cars in the shade of the maple tree.
5. What is your best character trait or strength?
我慢. Gaman. "Enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity". From Zen Buddhism. Generally translated as "perseverance" but that is not quite accurate. Just like the word komorebi. "Sunlight that filters through the canopy of leaves of trees and onto the forest floor." The concept cannot be summed up in one convenient English word.
And no. Sitting through a Green Bay Packer game at Lambeau Field in January doesn't count. Gaman is more directed towards earthquakes and tsunamis.
Or the adversities of being the only freshman on varsity cheer.
